I tried the official EA version of Tetris on a smartphone lately and it was an absolute travesty. It actually played a video commercial before even letting me play. Then more spam between every level. In some ways computers have really fallen a long way in 30 years.

To be honest the game was not that extraordinary, but it had its appeal. I think however it was the music [youtube.com] that really made the game popular. Seeing that the game was all about matching up blocks that fit together, it was very poetic that they used a Russian folk song that was about courtship [wikipedia.org].

Back then, programmers had a bit of culture. These hipsters are just faking it.